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With IPL support, MIT Associate Professor Noelle Selin led a delegation of MIT researchers to the first conference on the Minamata Convention on Mercury
Dan Pomeroy | International Policy Lab October 12, 2017
The International Policy Lab (IPL) within the Center for International Studies has issued its third Institute-wide call for proposals. The IPL helps leading MIT researchers develop the policy implications of their research and ...

Recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) suggest that carbon capture and storage (CCS) could be a cost-effective strategy to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with climate change, particularly in the power...

MIT Joint Program Co-Director Ronald Prinn, a co-author of the study in Nature Communications, stresses the need for countries to accurately and transparently quantify their greenhouse gas emissions
Atmospheric methane concentrations over South Asia measured by the GOSAT satellite
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Bloomberg/AP: MIT Joint Program Research Scientist Kenneth Strzepek comments on the impact of Ethiopian dam on Egypt's water supply
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Michael Bloomberg will deliver keynote address
Office of the Vice President for Research September 29, 2017
MIT will host a summit this December to highlight the regional leadership of the northeast U.S. and eastern Canada in responding to climate change and to explore strategies for building on that leadership.

Climate scientist describes physics behind expected increase in storm strength due to climate change
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office September 21, 2017
In a detailed talk about the history and the underlying physics of hurricanes and tropical cyclones, MIT Professor Kerry Emanuel yesterday explained why climate change will cause such storms to become much stronger and reach peak...

In Episode 11 of MIT ClimateX Climate Conversations, MIT Joint Program research scientists Élodie Blanc and Erwan Monier discuss how climate modeling and collaborative research are used to assess climate impacts on regional agriculture, the economy and industry
MIT ClimateX:
"This week, the climate conversations team are joined by Élodie Blanc and Erwan Monier, research scientists at MIT who are investigating the way climate change affects the amount of water available for agriculture.
We discuss how climate modelling and collaborative...

In MIT’s Compton Lecture, former U.S. energy secretary speaks on global security risks
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office September 22, 2017
Ernest J. Moniz, who in January left his position as the 13th U.S. Secretary of Energy, spoke on Thursday about his long and ongoing history at MIT, and about his current work focusing on two major threats the world faces: nuclear...

China's cap-and-trade system is expected to launch by the end of 2017.

MIT Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly, former U.S. Vice President Albert Gore and other experts explore extreme implications of climate change in a video in the NowThis: Apocalypse online series
MIT Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly, former U.S. Vice President Albert Gore and other experts explore extreme implications of climate change in Meltdown Earth, a video in the NowThis: Apocalypse online series. The video description reads: "Rising ocean waters, scorching temperatures, food...